Our first update of the new year, Backlight 2.0.5, is now available, featuring numerous fixes, and quality of life improvements.
How-to: Installing Updates in Backlight 2
This update includes:
- Updates Fancybox to version 3.5.6, refactors and improves parts of our implementation.
- Adds Toggle Photo Selection button to View Photos page.
- Adds support for a Maximum Number of Uploads setting, so that users can upload more than 100 images at a time.
- Adds admin setting to automatically redirect from http to https.
- Adds sample PHPlugins function for interacting with WP.
- Adds check for minimum of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size for image uploads.
- Adds checks in Metadata fetching to handle missing nodes and attributes.
- Adds exclusion for wp- errors (such as Wordfence).
- Changes Album title validation to allow titles starting with digits.
- Changes failed login before locking count from 2 to 10.
- Fixes Fancybox transition animations.
- Fixes Fotomoto implementation for the HTML-based single-image presentation.
- Fixes handling of empty language Display Title.
- Fixes database cleanup of Publisher after migrating albums from CE4.
- Fixes numerical sorting on number of Photos on List Albums page.
- Fixes coding syntax that can cause issues on newer versions of PHP.
- Encodes opening and closing braces in Publisher parameters.
- Refactors .htaccess file, including fix to allow non-Backlight resource files to be loadable from the top of the site.
- Removes Client Response Template setting from Client Response admin, moves search and client templates from Publisher to Personalisation.